Category: Human Rights

Multicultural Australia

The Australian Day, celebrated on January 26 this year, as usual, laid another step towards homogeneity of multicultural communities in Australia. Despite being hundreds of communities living together, the country is advancing and staying calm and peaceful. One of the principles behind ‘One Nation One People’ policy government adopted,...

The helpless people of a democracy

Orong High School has been the case of constant discussion and debate in the country ever since two students died and dozens hospitalised few weeks back. Laboratory tests for food and health tests of the students have not concluded confirming that the cause of death was vitamin deficiency. The...

Additional pain to DNC

The judiciary in Bhutan is still under influences of the autocratic regime of the past upholding verdicts that are intended to crush all possible oppositions in the country. Few days before the death of freedom fighter Rongthong Kunley, his supporters in Bhutan, now serving jail sentence, have been given...

King’s Driglam Namzha

For general public, in early and mid 1990s, national etiquette was like religion in Bhutan. Driglam Namzha was imposed in such a matter that it was the highest ethics and greatest responsibility of the people to obey – even while in farm. Many received fines for not obeying. Did...

Bhutan plays it safe with neighbors

By Vishal Arora THIMPHU, Bhutan – Three years into power, the first democratic government of Bhutan is treading cautiously as it leads the tiny land-locked Himalayan kingdom tucked between the two Asian rivals, India and China. Thimphu’s geopolitical concerns seem to be a key component of its foreign relations...

Where Is My Right to Information?

By Pema Wangchuk On the outset, let me make clear to all the readers that whatever I write in WAB is my own and I am neither a grammar guru having graduated from Oxford nor a Cambridge aficionado. I am just a simple and budding writer having recently graduated...